Sentences with phrase «collect as much light»

For more than a century, engineers have been building bigger and bigger mirrors to collect as much light as possible, but that misses an essential part of the problem.

Not exact matches

The nanowires collect sunlight, much like the light - absorbing layer on a solar panel, and the bacteria use the energy from that sunlight to carry out chemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel such as isopropanol.

Capable of collecting nine times as much light as any other optical telescope, it could discover Earth - like planets in the habitable zones around other stars and search for changes over time in the fundamental physical constants.

Another roadblock hindering solar cells is that much of the light they collect is wasted as heat and not converted to electricity.

Because the fluorescent glow tends to be dim, a near - infrared light camera needs to have a wide aperture to collect as much fluorescent light as possible.

Built on the simple principle of collecting as much as possible, smashing everything to bits and extremely light puzzle solving, Traveller's Tales have created a series of charming games that appeal to adults as much as they do to children.

Works on paper most often have the texture of spray paint and a horizon line, much as drawings collected by Dan Flavin connect his fluorescent tubes to Hudson River light.

He collected drawings as well, until his death in 1996, with much the same sense of light as in his sculpture.

Love the old bronzed look and the practical side of me says it won't collect as much dust as the Pottery Barn light... a big bowl just begging for dust to come visit.